Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patrons too have changed. The new boogie bunch dress up for the occasion-with shoulders, backs, breasts and midriffs tending to be nearly bare. Outside of a few old-style "meat racks" -mostly homosexual hangouts-few disco freaks today turn out in jeans, shorts, T shirts or sandals. Designers like Halston make women's clothes just for dancing. "The dress becomes your dancing partner," he says, and Photographer Francesco Scavullo claims that the "young and exciting fashions in the discos are the only clothes today." Dancing styles have progressed and mellowed. The hustle and the bus stop, the rope...
...music almost everywhere is "disco sound": heavy back beat, uptempo, often with Big Band effects. Favorite artists are Barry White, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, the Silver Convention, Maynard Ferguson, Shalamar, Marvin Gaye, the Bee Gees, the Isley Brothers, Jerry Butler-as well as Sinatra, Como and Glenn Miller. They are cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood...
...Portago. Andréa Who? Not exactly a household name, Andréa, 26, is an aspiring New York actress and the daughter of the 17th Marquis de Portago, the flamboyant Spanish Grand Prix driver killed in 1957 in Italy's Mille Miglia. While doing the disco scene one night at Manhattan's Régine's, she was spotted by Nina Ricci representatives. They excitedly hired Photographer Francesco Scavullo to capture Andréa's face for the new fragrance Farouche (meaning both "fierce" and "shy" in French). "I'm very Latin and very...
...other evidence of his Chicago popularity might have the pharaoh twirling in his tomb: pyramid hair styles, Cleopatra eye makeup, scarab rings, mummy bead necklaces, wallpaper sporting Egyptian goddesses, Tut towel and pillow sets. The newest disco dance is a stimulating shuffle called the King Tut Strut. One women's shop has achieved the living end in Egyptian necrophilia: its main window features a mannequin wrapped in masking tape to look like a mummy...
...expansion of MIT, which was funded by tremendous amounts of government research money after World War II, eventually destroyed Kendall Square's working community; the residential and business character of the Kenmore Square area near Boston University has radically changed, becoming a Disco, college-oriented center to attract the student market over the last ten to fifteen years. The student situation is but one illustration of the way an unjust revenue structure, private capital investment and the profit motive in housing, deny decent homes to hardworking people in favor of institutions, playgrounds and luxury apartments for the middle and upper...